I came across this site and I admit I’m intrigued by the August event. I wonder if it would be fascinating fun or a total waste of money. I’m now in the midst of a kitchen renovation that has taken over my life and my bank account, so something like this is not in the summer budget. But still, I’m interested. So spill, ye fearless ones. Tell me all about it.
I’ve never gone on an official ghost hunt, but a few years back some friends and I visited some local places rumored to be haunted, including a creepy old mental hospital in the first stages of demolition. Midnight, flashlights, odd noises and the hair on the back of our necks standing on end… oooooh.
We succeeded in scaring the pants off ourselves, and got some “orbs” in the pictures we were taking. I know the scientific explanation is dust in front of the lens, but I’ve never gotten that in any other photos I’ve taken.
Going on an official ghost hunt seems like fun, and a much better idea. No fear of getting charged with trespassing anyway. So I’d like to know if the official hunts are fun too. I’d love to do it again, and a legal method seems better than our less-than-legal one.
Some friends of mine are North American Indian shamans, semi-pro ghost hunters and house ‘clearers’. They have done a lot of work in New England but their favorite place is Dudleytown, CT. They have written a book and done some public awarness projects around there. They used to take tours through Dudleytown but it’s sort of stressful physically. They get punched and hit and there have been some instances of people suffering more serious problems. Seems the ‘things’ there are not happy and take it out on the intruders. Oh, and photos from those trips are populated with white balls and white shapes.
I’m sure they’ll take you if you want to go… :eek:
When my brother was 5, I shined a flashlight under his bed, to check for Boogums.
Does that count?
:dubious: :rolleyes:
No, because there’s no such thing as ghosts. However, I’ve messed with other people who have been trying to seek them. Specifically, I overheard them talking about setting up a video camera in an abandoned space, letting it run overnight, and then retrieving the tape and listening carefully to the audio (the screen was black; the space was pitch dark) to see if any “ghostly whispers” had been captured during the night. You can imagine the entertainment value. 
My family thinks a room in our house is haunted by my great-grandmother, so feel free to stop by if you’re in the Orlando area.
So they worked with Ed and Lorraine Warren occasionally? I have a friend who worked and studied with them, but I have a huge case of WTF about them. Way too christian for my taste [apparently at one time they tried to get my friend to stop hanging out with me because I am pagan … though they seemed to grudgingly have given that up and conceeded there were the occasional ‘good’ pagan. <boggle> and they had this insistance that the whole Amity thing really happened. I had friends living in amity at that time, and there was NOTHING about it locally - it was a guy going nuts and killing his family, and another family that had financial problems and decided to make some money off it with an author. Meh]
Though I have gone to dudlytown a couple of times and nothing happened. Though there is a spiffy cemetary on a mountain in the noeth west corner of CT that is nice to hang out in, and another one near where the Warrens lived when I knew them. Cemetaries are nice and quiet to walk around in.
I agree with Cervaise, because I know of no evidence that ghosts exist.
Since nothing ever happens on a ghost hunt, what does it mean when when a place is described as ‘most haunted’?
It is a load of crap, designed to separate you from your money.
Offer them this deal. Tell them that if you can participate for free, you will split $1M USD with them, after the ghosts do their thing for the JREF.
See how far that gets you.
Ask what this feature means :* Paranormal Investigation access to the entire theater with a limited number of attendees.* Seems like gibberish to me.
Research Al Capone. Find an extremely trivial detail about his life. Ask him about it. See what he says.
It really is a load of crap. These folks are scammers.
Ssssh. Be vewwy vewwy quiet. We’re huntin’ spiwits. Bwa-ha-ha-ha…! :smack:
I’ve done my own ghost hunting, most recently in a local spook spot known as Haunted Hill. There I heard a strange moaning noise and tracked it to its source; it proved to be a horny roadrunner calling for a mate.
I’ve been to a lot of supposedly haunted places and never seen anything. Obviously the ghosts are afraid of me, so if any of you are having problems with them call me and I’ll run them off.
Yup, they have. They may not have liked the Warrens, but in the name of research they listened to them.
I noticed that there is a movie coming out in October called Dudleytown but no mention in the IMdB. My friends tell me the Dark Entry Association is well funded and uses their stable of lawyers to shut down any publicity around the place. My friend did a segment for the Travel Channel about Dudleytown and the Dark Entry people got it cancelled. Ghosts nor not, there is some real power in that place. 
First of all. . .there’s no such thing as ghosts. You agree with me, right?
So, after that. . .it’s a question of whether you think it’s fun to listen to that particular thread of bullshit for a weekend. Maybe you do.
Personally, if I was looking for something “fascinating” or “interesting”, I’d go to a museum or a natural wonder. There’s some amazing REAL stuff in this country. Line the pockets of some fucking con man after you’ve seen it all.
Back in high school, some friends and I visited a cemetary that was supposedly haunted on a dark and rainy Halloween night. We were all in a very herbally enhanced state of mind. One particularly paranoid fellow slipped into a hole in the ground (an unfinished grave?!??) and began a terrified, high pitched screaming fit! He claimed that there was a dead baby in there trying to get him! It was just mud.
I once spent the night in a “haunted” hotel in Gettysburg. My wife claimed that my snoring probably frightened any ghosts in residence!
Scammers is the wrong word. These folks are charging you for entertainment, and if you’re entertained, then everybody wins.
Regarding the hunt themselves, it’s a lot of selective attention to anomalous readings and overexamining ridiculously tiny morsels of evidence. I’m pretty sure that they believe in what they’re doing, which doesn’t fit the definition of “scammer” either.
I’ll volunteer here that I do believe in ghosts* and give ghost tours here in Austin. But I’ve rarely if ever seen any kind of clear infallible evidence, in the form of pictures/readings/“orbs”/whatever, that a ghost hunt has contributed. Ergo: waste of time, for me.
*obligatory caveat that who the hell knows what ghosts really are, I just think that there are some kinds of activity out there, generalized as “ghost stories,” that fall outside what science can readily explain.
One time back in my teen years I went up to Detroit with a friend. Met a girl at a dance there and she became somewhat taken with me, me being a “foreigner” and all.
She got me to take her someplace out near Dearborn to an old, abandoned, “haunted house” to look for ghosts.
I didn’t see any ghosts, but I did see a whole lot of Linda, there in the moonlight.
In the weeks leading up to October 31, I and my reporters try to find supposedly haunted houses, businesses and cemeteries and stay in them over night to get a feature story out of it.
It’s good fun and promotes the paper pretty well. Those prices they are charging in your cite seem a bit steep, however. I would say get some friends together and do your own ghost hunt.